Roma Make Move For Newcastle Midfield Target

Roma are expected to lose their top 24 year-old central midfield play-maker Miralem Pjanic in the summer, and he’s been linked with some big clubs this year, including PSG and Manchester United.

Clement Grenier – Roma now interested And there is news in Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport, that Roma manager Rudi García is very interested in 23 year-old Lyon play-maker Clement Grenier, and he knows all about the French International when he managed Lille in the French League.

Newcastle tried to sign Grenier in January as a replacement for Yohan Cabaye, but we were unsuccessful for a number of reasons, including the player didn’t want to move clubs in the middle of the season, as he tried to get into the French squad for the World Cup.

Grenier has achieved that ambition, and Newcastle are in for him again this summer, but there are also big clubs said to be interested in him, and they include Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham from the Premier League.

Grenier is a gifted technical player, and he would be a popular player on Tyneside – if we can get him to the club this summer, but it’s worrying that so many big clubs are now interested in one of our top midfield targets.

And there was an ominous warning from manager Alan Pardew yesterday, that this transfer window could be a difficult one for the club.

Well, we knew it wouldn’t be easy, but it’s also one of the most important summer transfer windows in recent memory, so me must get some of our top transfer targets in before September.

Whether that will include Clement Grenier is a good question, but the more interest in the player this summer from big clubs, the less we think the chances are that we can get him through the door before September rolls around

No chance we will have to pay a transfer fee and he will want top players wages, why don’t we just dispense with all the players we have no chance of signing and just get down to the 3rd and 4th choices, these being young untried french players and free agents because that is all we can hope for

To be fair the club never said that, it was the papers presuming that because of the world cup prices would go up and because we’re so tight fisted that we wouldn’t pay the fees after the world cup so we’d buy them before

It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest to hear the club leaked something like this to the press to get people’s hopes up for more season ticket sales! I wouldn’t put anything past them mate

Average/Charlie, Yeah, the club haven’t said when business would be done. I fully expect us to do most of our business during the World Cup, as other clubs will be watching that, we can quietly go about our business without too much attention being drawn to it..

Pardew…….They’re not going to sack him & he won’t walk so move the sack of sh#t upstairs & get a top coach in.Ferguson didn’t do much coaching but he had people in who could coach,we don’t. Lilo Did you read about Paul Clement & West Brom a few days ago & his willingness to come to the PL.?

Stuart, I’m not sure cunning is the right word, it may well happen by chance rather than being planned. It would certainly fit in with the way they like to operate in the transfer market. Avoid competition and bidding wars.

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